It's election 2014 in India. Media and TV channels are working day and night with no rest to cover each and every event, speeches by political parties and all incidents associated with elections

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Much
more than the candidates, journalists and news anchors are so busy
that they left their brains and wisdom in the restrooms.
Predominantly media practices yellow journalism. However, this time
they showed their desperation to attack Samajwadi Party's Netaji and
their leaders for their remarks pertaining to RAPE to such an extent
that I felt it is supermarket tabloid or red top journalism.

The
definition of Rape as per Indian Penal code also includes that the
mistake of having sex by boys in a live-in relationship, is also a
RAPE and should be punished with death sentence. It is important to
note that as per NCRB Statistics 75% of rape cases are false and NCRB
statistics also reveal the proximity of the rapist with accusers. It
has been recorded that 90% of the cases the accused was known to
accusers.

On
last Thursday, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav opposed
capital punishment for rape, saying ladke, ladke hain galti ho
jati hai (boys will be boys they commit mistakes). And further
said that If SP forms government, they will amend the law of giving
death sentence to rape accused.

Media
twisted the above statements of Netaji, to destroy the truth before
it exposes the gender biased society. A very clever game played by
the TV anchors to spike their respective Channels TRPs.

To
understand the depth of Netaji's statement let me take you to basics
of vocabulary. Rape is termed as crime when it is done with or
without consent, forcefully and inducing the girl to have sex.

Netaji
never said that boys are boys and they do rape. But he said that boys
do mistake of having sex with the girl before marriage. Any prudent
man or women would agree that sex by mistake is not a rape, and they
should not be hanged for such mistakes.

This
is what Netaji's statements convey very strong opposition to such
meaningless penal provision. But sensationalism obsessed Media, side
stepped the real issue and cherry picking shocking taglines
instead of debating death penalty to such mistakes committed out of
love and affection. Only because the relationship didn't work and
treating a mistake of having sex by boys as greater crime than any
other and subjecting them to such harsh punishment is absurd in the
highest order. Even a terrorist who rapes integrity of a nation is
given a chance to live by delaying the death sentence.

If
such a stringent punishment is warranted for boys for such mistakes,
then the statement followed by Abu Azmi which says Women having
premarital sex should be hanged shall be welcomed by all those who
criticize the SP leaders. If they don't accept death sentence for
such women, then they don't have any intellectual, moral authority to
criticize who question the Rape laws.

Having
consensual Sex is not a Rape and Mistake of Sex should not be a
crime at all.

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